PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Distributive Justice, Methamphetamine, Negative And Positive Rights
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Must be able to draw upon concepts to make arguments or analysis. Be prepared to expect more development being that we have the questions ahead of time. Chapter 11: justice in healthcare and resource distribution. Authors in the book write from the perspective of the american healthcare system. And the person behind you in line is one person closer to the front of the line. We also have limited doctors because the government can only pay so many because we only allow the government to pay. So if we allowed private health there would be shorter wait lists and more doctors. The poor would be helped by the government. Slides: us health insurance, 90 mill americans were w/o coverage for 2006-07, 80% of the uninsured families were working, in 2006 1/3 of companies didn"t o er health insurance. : there were 8. 7 million uninsured children (12%, 46. 5 million americans has no health insurance - 18% of people under age 65.